| Wiggle room - The amount of flexibility that is added to a situation. E.g "Add two weeks onto the deadline, that way we give ourselves some wiggle room if things go wrong". |  |
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| Upskill - To self improve or to train staff internally with very little extra effort. |  |
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| Tailwinds - Positive market conditions that favour success. E.g "It shouldn't be too difficult to pull off as we will be riding the tailwinds of last months launch" |  |
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| Skill set - A collection of abilities, commonly matched to a set of requirements. E.g. "I know he is a friend but does he have the necessary skill set we require". |  |
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| Shotgun approach - A wide, untargeted strategy. E.g. "We normally take a shotgun approach to our marketing campaigns". |  |
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| Scope creep - Used to describe when tasks get added to a project that were not included in the original specification. |  |
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| Rubber stamp - Approval. "Can I get your rubber stamp on this one?" |  |
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| Road map - A plan for dealing with upcoming business challenges. E.g "We're not going to be able to pull this off without a decent road map of how to proceed" |  |
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| Reinventing the wheel - Hard work that could be avoided by using someone else's idea. E.g. "but aren't we just reinventing the wheel" |  |
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| Ramp up - To increase over a period of time. E.g "We will need to ramp up our production towards the Christmas period to meet demand". |  |
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| Outside the box - A creative solution that avoids a traditional or common approach. E.g. "They want something different from us this time, so I think we need to think outside of the box" |  |
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| Out of the box - Describes the abilities of a product immediately after purchase without any upgrades or integration. E.g "Due to the time constraints we will need the software to provide all of that out of the box" |  |
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| Organisational DNA - Refers to the makeup of a company be it structure, ethos, resources or culture. |  |
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| Organisational awareness Familiarity with the things that are (or supposed to be) commonly known throughout an organization E.g. "I think Steve can take over that role, he's very experienced and has good organisational awareness" |  |
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| Organic growth - Natural expansion of a business using existing resources and customers E.g. Existing customers increasing their sales volumes. |  |
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| Org chart - A graphical representation of an organization's hierarchy |  |
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| On point - A military term referring to the first and primary person involved in a given situation. E.g "You're on point for the Harris & co meeting next Tuesday" |  |
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| Old boys club - A longstanding network of tight business relationships. |  |
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| Offline - Usually used in business meetings to state that something will be talked about in private E.g. "That situation has escalated we need to talk about that offline" |  |
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| Nail jelly to the wall - A difficult or impossible task E.g. "Trying to get that team to work together is like trying to nail jelly to the wall" |  |
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| Moving the goal posts - Changing the parameters of an ongoing project. E.g. "The goal posts have moved several times on this project and as a result we have missed several important milestones." |  |
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